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Death of a Unicorn
Director: Comedy, Horror
Cast: Jenna Ortega, Paul Rudd, Will Poulter, Téa Leoni, Richard E. Grant, Sunit Marni, Anthony Carrigan, Jessica Hynes, Steve Park, Nick Wittman
A father (Paul Rudd) and his daughter (Jenna Ortega) accidentally encounter a unicorn on their way to a weekend getaway, and his billionaire boss (Richard E. Grant) wants to exploit the unicorn's magical healing powers.
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Companion
A group of friends head to a remote cabin for the weekend, but their peaceful vacation is thrown into chaos when they discover that one of their companions is not who they seem...
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La prisonnière de Bordeaux
Alma lives alone in a spacious townhouse, while Mina is a single mother from another city who lives in a low-rent apartment. The lives of these two women revolve around prison visits. Their partners are imprisoned in the same prison for different reasons. Once in the rest area outside the visiting room, Alma and Mina met by chance, and an unexpected friendship began...
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Death of a Unicorn
Director: Comedy, Horror
Cast: Jenna Ortega, Paul Rudd, Will Poulter, Téa Leoni, Richard E. Grant, Sunit Marni, Anthony Carrigan, Jessica Hynes, Steve Park, Nick Wittman
User Rating: 5.7/10 (1719 votes)
As mentioned before, the core setting of this movie is actually very interesting, and should have led to many exciting plots and creative ideas. However, I feel that the movie didn't really make use of this highlight. The overall feeling is a bit too conservative and too formulaic, which is a pity. Many plots are old hat, such as the tense father-daughter relationship and the extremely capitalist wealthy family, and the way these plots unfold lack novelty. From a visual perspective, the special effects of the unicorn are not particularly outstanding, but they have reached a qualified level. The presentation of the unicorn and the animation effects need to be improved, or more realistic alternatives need to be adopted and polished. A lot of times, it would have been better to simplify it, as many of the death scenes ended up being boring and predictable. The design itself is good and fits in with the overall style of the movie. The overall shooting level is also okay.
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Director: Science Fiction, Thriller
Cast: Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lucas Gage, Megan Surie, Harvey Guillen, More...
User Rating: 6.8/10 (36738 votes)
# Companion# (B+) is not a horror film, but a robot-out-of-control thriller similar to "M3GAN". But the scariest part is not the killing or gore in the film, but the fact that when you watch it, you will learn from the experience of this female robot what some men want in a "partner", and how to control and treat their partners roughly. In other words, although the one who is tortured in the film is a robot, in reality, many real women are also treated like this: being manipulated, subjected to domestic violence, and without freedom and respect. They are living people, not bought robots. This is the most creepy thing. From the beginning, when the male protagonist Josh walks in front with nothing in his hands, and his girlfriend Iris follows behind with two large suitcases, you know that this is not a normal relationship. In real life, most of the time it is the men who help their girlfriends carry their luggage, but here it is the other way around. The smaller girl seems to be the boyfriend's follower. When you know that this girlfriend is a robot, you don't find it strange anymore. But then again, in real life, does every man really carry luggage for his girlfriend (or wife)? Similar scenes keep happening later. Is Josh's control and insults to Iris really just because she is a robot playmate? In fact, everything Iris encounters, whether it is control, brainwashing, manipulation or insults, is endured by real people in real life. In particular, when you find that Josh will adjust Iris's IQ to a very low level (40%) and lower her temper in order to control Iris, so she becomes a very obedient and indecisive girlfriend. In reality, many girls are born to be this kind of obedient and indecisive girlfriend, they are not robots. If there is no way to buy a robot, such women can easily become victims of a toxic relationship. The female robot Iris in the film can also take the opportunity to grab the phone to raise her IQ and immediately transform into a smart and strong woman, but some girls in reality cannot change their IQ and may always be manipulated. But on the other hand, you may wonder, if there is such a robot as a substitute, will it help some girls escape from the clutches of these demons? There are many movies about robots and AI, so the ending should be predictable. Obviously, the audience will stand on the side of the robot, hoping that she can escape from the clutches of the evil and the bad guys will be punished. The whole movie is still full of surprises and twists. AI and technology are not the focus of this film. The focus is on mapping the reality that is prevalent in human society, showing the desires, greed and control of some people, and how women may fall into "inhuman" gender relationships. The film is quite profound and has some relatively novel ideas, and is not a repetition of the same type. In addition, the reason why the heroine is called Iris is that the name is reversed to Siri
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Director: Drama
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Afsia Elch, Noor Elasri, Jean Guerre Souye, William Edimo, Magne-Håvard Brekke, Lionel Delrey
User Rating: 7.1/10 (2380 votes)
9.28 Pingyao The title is obvious. Even if the husbands are in prison, their ghosts (mixed with capitalist economy and patriarchy) still linger in the society where women live - the house. Men are prisoners in prison, and women are prisoners in the house. Therefore, the two women made completely different choices. The noblewoman fled with the artworks, allowing the artworks hanging in the villa to break free from the above discipline; while the poor returned to the prison to visit the prisoner with the spoils of parasitizing the rich, hoping to return to the patriarchal survival order. Although they seem to be completely different, they are actually the upgraded version of "Nora" with different paths to the same destination: artworks are not survival materials. The former may still starve to death if she escapes with artworks; while the latter is the successful begging version of Nora who returns and strengthens the poor family. On this basis, the lesbian elements and the betrayal in the bathroom make girls help girls, a humanistic theme that transcends class and race, generate more reflexive thinking, that is, sometimes people want respect and emotion or material compensation. If the latter is enough, then what is the so-called mutual help and confrontation, and how to do it? Therefore, leaving with the artwork is a metaphorical response to the question of "Nora": after material abundance, can we escape the old gender order, and how do we face the hesitation and meaning loss brought by the deeper new gender order in our hearts. It's like the paintings in those movies. When they are not trapped in the circulation of the art market and the homes of men, how will their value be reflected and where will they go. These movies don't seem to try to respond, but only use a slightly contrasting ending to summarize: the rich escape, the poor reunite. Such an ending does not cater to the current slogan-style network-style "feminist" theme in any sense, but allows this doctrine to self-transform and self-betray under a small ambition, thereby enhancing the overall perception of the movie, which is concise and pleasant. Therefore, it is understandable that its shots and stories are lackluster.
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Sidelined: The QB and Me
Director: Drama, Romance
Cast: Noah Beck, Siena Agudong, Drew Ray Tanner
User Rating: 6.9/10 (421 votes)
In the interweaving of light and shadow, we see the diversity and complexity of life. Wonderful movies always touch people's hearts. Whether it is the ups and downs of the plot or the delicate portrayal of the characters, people are immersed in it. Movies are not only entertainment, but also an art. It brings us thinking and enlightenment with its unique perspective and expression. Every movie is like a dream, allowing us to temporarily escape from reality and enter a wonderful world. Good movies are worth savoring repeatedly, and new details and profound meanings can be discovered every time you watch them.
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Joy
Director: Drama, Biography, History
Cast: Thomasin McKenzie, Rishi Shah, James Norton, Nikolaj Shulick, Adrian Lukis, More...
User Rating: 7.5/10 (1394 votes)
What touched me the most in this movie was what the head nurse said: "We are here to provide these women with choices." Whether it is abortion or IVF, it is a choice that should belong to women and is an option that science can provide to them. At the beginning of the year, I interviewed a patient with cervical cancer during pregnancy. For a young woman who is extremely eager to have children, the cruelest thing is to tell her at the same time: Congratulations! There is a new life growing in your uterus, but unfortunately, there is also a tumor in it that will take your life. Many hospitals advised her to stop the pregnancy and treat the cancer as soon as possible, but she was very determined. She told me that she wanted to keep the child no matter what. Finally, only our hospital agreed to treat her. Two department directors performed an operation together, helping her deliver the baby and remove the tumor at the same time. The baby is very healthy and the mother is very happy. The teacher told me that this is very worth promoting. In the past, you would never have thought that women with cervical cancer could still have children. To be honest, I couldn't agree with her at first. I couldn't understand why this woman risked her life to have a baby. I even criticized her recklessness in my heart and thought her persistence was stupid. And although the treatment and surgery were very difficult, I didn't understand why the hospital promoted the practice of giving birth with tumors.
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Nosferatu
Director: Suspense, Horror, Fantasy
Cast: Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Bill Skarsgård, Aaron Taylor -Johnson, Willem Dafoe, Emma Corrin
User Rating: 5.9/10 (11524 votes)
This weekend I came across the horror movie "Nosferatu" that was recommended to me before the Spring Festival. I didn't expect it to be an award-winning movie in Hollywood this year. The movie tells the story of Alan who summoned a ghost as a child and ended up being possessed by it. When he grew up, he married a young real estate agent, Thomas. In order to make a living, Thomas was arranged by the company to go to an abandoned castle to do business with Count Nosferatu. He met the mysterious and terrifying Count Vampire and fled the castle in a hurry. Unexpectedly, the Count Vampire had arrived and caused a plague in the town. He and his wife, together with the professor they invited, began to try to eliminate the Count Vampire. The story framework setting basically replicates the horror narrative of the return of the vampire Count causing the spread of plague in the old movie "Nosferatu" in 1922, and is mixed with the Count's obsession with his new wife in "Bram Stoker's Dracula" in 1992, and then innovatively adds the desire-driven nature of today's trendy female subjectivity. In the end, the movie ends with the Count's terrifying desire gaze at the heroine Ellen, and Ellen, as the subject of desire, is hesitant to speak but easily kills the Count in the end, resulting in a split in the viewing experience. This movie wants to maintain the same Gothic style as the previous one - dim environment background, plain clothes, and towering gloomy castle. Although the atmosphere is well set, the unique aesthetic details of Gothic are not refined enough. The gloomy castle is only left with light and dark silhouettes, making the movie look like a horror shell. As for Depp's daughter Lily, who plays Allen, I personally feel that she is not suitable for this role. Her body shape is not suitable for playing the peerless beauty praised by the real estate boss; and her temperament is rather wooden. She does not have the fragility and confusion of Winona Ryder in "Bram Stoker's Dracula", nor does she embody the tension of female subject desire, only the hysteria when she is possessed by ghosts. The female characters lack flavor, and the male characters are not portrayed accurately. Nicholas Hoult, who plays the newlywed husband Thomas, is middle-aged but not mature enough, so he is suitable as a husband without sex appeal in the movie, but his appearance lacks the Gothic style. And Count Nosferatu in the movie has become a hairy monster, which is also not Gothic. Of course, these are minor flaws. The most serious problem of the film is that the expression of desire is too direct and fragmented. At the beginning, the heroine Ellen summoned the vampire lord because of desire, and then she was in a panic. During this period, the film directly expressed the desire through the wanton flirting between her husband's friend and his wife. Then the newlywed wife directly asked her husband for sex to express her true love for her husband and rejected the vampire lord's sexual request. So the desire either did not appear or was so obvious that it blinded the eyes. Only the detail of the naked girl riding a horse towards the depths of the fog in the middle of the movie was meaningful. At the same time, the movie constantly emphasizes that the Count is powerful. He can control the real estate owner to become his accomplice, and can spread the plague through his coffin. But in the end, Allen kills the Count directly by having sex with him. It can be said that dying under the peony flower is unjust as a ghost! It can be seen that the powerful ability of traditional vampires in the movie is ultimately no match for the powerful consciousness of modern women, and the adaptations that are not beautiful outside the movie have won consecutive photography awards. It turns out that Hollywood movies are gradually regressing!
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Sei nell'anima
Director: Drama, Music, Biography
Cast: Letizia Toni, Selene Caramazza, Maurizio Lombardi, Noemi Brando, Alessandro Cucca, Emanuele Luigi Cuomo
User Rating: 7.0/10 (273 votes)
The film uses powerful visual language to reveal the violent nature behind this beautiful ideology. On the surface, the film tells a coming-of-age story about youth, rebellion and self-identity; in essence, it quietly presents how beauty is constructed as a tool of social discipline and the painful struggles that individuals experience under this discipline.
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Nobody
Director: Action, Crime
Cast: Bob Odenkirk, Alexi Serebryakov, Connie Nielsen, Christopher Lloyd, Michael Ironside, More...
User Rating: 7.8/10 (186482 votes)
"Little People" is a crime action film released in 2021, directed by Ilya Naishuller and starring Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen, Alexi Serebryakov and others. The film tells the story of the protagonist Hutch (Hutch Mansell), a retired agent killer who longs for a peaceful life, but in order to protect his family and children, he has to get involved in gang disputes again. I was deeply impressed by this movie, especially its portrayal and understanding of "little people". People who struggle at the bottom of society are often overlooked, and this movie is a loving tribute to them. The character of Hutch made me see the helplessness and tenacity of an ordinary person in the face of life pressure and danger. Although he was a top agent, after retiring, he just wanted to live an ordinary life. However, for the safety of his family, he had to wield his weapons and become the "nobody" again. The action scenes of the film are very exciting and exciting, which makes people sweat. The acting is also excellent, especially Bob Odenkirk, who successfully portrays a character with both wisdom and courage. In addition, the film's music and photography are also very good, creating a depressing and tense atmosphere for the film.
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Friendship
Director: Comedy
Cast: Tim Robinson, Paul Rudd, Kate Mara
User Rating: 3.0/10 (100 votes)
Accepted too fast
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Nonnas
Director: Comedy
Cast: Vince Vaughn, Susan Sarandon, Linda Cardellini, Lorraine Bracco, Talia Shire, More...
User Rating: 7.1/10 (785 votes)
Overseas reviews: The film has outstanding advantages. The wonderful performances of veteran actors make the characters vivid and lively. The food scenes are tempting and convey the food culture. The theme is warm and profound. However, there are also shortcomings. The romantic subplot is old-fashioned and the stories of supporting characters are not explored enough. Overall, viewers who like warm comedies and food culture should not miss it. When watching, they can focus on the actors' performances and the emotions behind the food.
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Plainclothes
Director: Drama, Romance, Thriller, Homosexual
Cast: Tom Blythe, Russell Tovey, Maria Dizzia, Christian Cooke, Gabe Fazio, More...
User Rating: 7.9/10 (5353 votes)
"Plainclothes Police" and "Brokeback Mountain" do have many similarities, presenting the persecution of homosexuals in a homophobic social environment and the exploration of nature under the moral constraints of sexual repression. The casting of "Plain Clothes Police" is relatively reasonable compared to "Brokeback Mountain". The actors of the fishing enforcement police are necessary to meet the character setting. Most of the castings for same-sex stories are handsome men and beautiful women, as if those with ordinary looks or bad looks are not even qualified to fall in love. The same is true for heterosexual stories. There are even lines that describe handsome men and beautiful women as "ordinary". The casting is completely inconsistent with the character setting, just like I can't believe that Yuan Quan said the classic line in the stage play "Jane Eyre": "Do you think that because I am poor, humble, ugly, and short, I have no soul and no heart? You are wrong! My soul is the same as yours, and my heart is exactly the same as yours! If God gives me a little beauty and a little wealth, I will make it difficult for you to leave me, just like it is difficult for me to leave you now." This is a problem of audio-visual art form and audience aesthetics. Most humans are visual animals, and the Internet images of film and television dramas continue to strengthen the unified mainstream aesthetics. In recent years, domestic film and television dramas have seen another type of casting that does not fit the characters. Many handsome men and beautiful women are cast with actors with non-mainstream aesthetics, which has been ridiculed by netizens and audiences. It is remembered that more than ten or twenty years ago, there were all kinds of beauties blooming on the big and small screens, but nowadays, beauties are hard to find. The casting of Brokeback Mountain was criticized by the original author Annie Proulx. After the movie was released, many viewers followed their five senses and paid more attention to the love story, which weakened the criticism of the times. She received many fan fiction creations that arranged various new boyfriends for Ennis after Jack's death, which completely deviated from the main theme. She hoped that she had never written this story. The original focus is not the love between two men but the mental state and moral environment of homophobia in a specific era and region. For details, please see the original report Brokeback Mountain creator Annie Proulx regrets writing story. If the original casting was selected, it would not have become a classic love movie with so many audiences today. The two straight male actors were too shy to let go when performing the sex scene, but the two female actors exposed their breasts when filming the heterosexual sex scene. Ang Lee may have filmed it for straight male and straight audiences. It is also a merit to let homosexual-themed movies enter the mainstream vision. I remember that I went to the night market to buy pirated VCDs just for Anne Hathaway. I didn’t know the other actors, I was ignorant about sex and unfamiliar with the era, so I didn’t have much impression after watching the movie. Why didn't the film cast the characters according to the original novel? Because what Ang Lee wanted to film was love. He said, "To create a great love story, there must be huge obstacles. The two protagonists are in the American West, where there are masculinity and traditional values. Therefore, everything they feel must be kept secret. It is a precious, special thing that they cannot describe." This sentence also applies to the later "Lust, Caution". The era is not the focus, so it is no wonder that the sex scene is exaggerated to try to rationalize the psychological changes of the characters, and Mr. Yi is sad sitting on the bed after Wang Jiazhi is executed at the end. I still remember that the media hyped the deletion of the seven-minute nude sex scene. Many mainland audiences went to Hong Kong to watch the full version. Later, it was reported that Tang Wei was "banned". I couldn't help but sympathize with her and cut out the next report as a newspaper clipping. The deleted version of the screen shot pirated disc was circulated on the market. It was not until many years later that I had the opportunity to see the full version. After being eroded by various capitalist films in Europe and the United States, I no longer care about large-scale real and fake. When fake is true, true is also false. The truth is actually not important. Choose the one you are willing to believe in, which is your "truth". Of course, adaptation is similar to the secondary creation of fan fiction. The director can have his own understanding of the story, even if it is a disfiguring adaptation. The creator does not have to fear the judgment of the original party. Seeking common ground while reserving differences has its own merits. "Plain Clothes Police" is told from the male protagonist's perspective throughout, inviting the audience to enter the story and empathize with the characters to feel their psychological changes, from suppressing their nature to carefully exploring and finally awakening to facing their true selves. The police and the priest are filmed with a lot of sexual tension, although the audiovisual aspects are a bit flashy and showy. "It'll pass." Is this a slang term exclusive to priests? It immediately reminds me of the ascetic priest in the second season of "Fleabag". Coincidentally, both of them are named Andrew. I can't help but suspect that the director did it on purpose. There is still tomorrow: decriminalization of homosexuality. The 1961 film "Victim"was the first English film in film history to directly mention homosexuality. There was no same-sex sex scene in the whole film. In 1967, the UK passed the Sexual Offences Act to decriminalize homosexuality. Homosexual behavior in private places by men over the age of 21 was no longer a crime. Many people believe that "Victim" promoted legislation to some extent. In the United States, it was not until 2003 in the case of Lawrence v. Texas that the Federal Supreme Court overturned the fines imposed on John Lawrence and Tyron Deviant. This ruling overturned sodomy laws (this law is mainly used to prosecute same-sex sexual behavior in the United States) across the country. Homosexuals have the right to establish their own intimate relationships without interference from state laws. At present, 67 countries still convict homosexual behavior, mainly concentrated in the Middle East, Africa and Russia. Among them, 11 countries can impose the death penalty, including Afghanistan, Brunei, Iran, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, of which 8 are Asian countries. According to the survey, the death penalty is still being carried out against LGBTQ+ groups in Iran, northern Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen, while the death penalty is still a legal possibility in Afghanistan, Brunei, Mauritania, Pakistan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The new Criminal Law of mainland China in 1997 abolished the crime of hooliganism, which is considered to be a sign of the decriminalization of homosexuality in China. The current official attitude is similar to "neither support nor oppose nor advocate", and the mainstream public opinion does not agree. The crime of hooliganism is a crime stipulated in the Criminal Law promulgated in 1979, which refers to openly defying national laws and social morality, gathering to fight, provoking trouble, insulting women or disrupting public order and other serious acts. In the 1983 crackdown campaign, the penalty was expanded to the maximum of death. After the 1997 revision, the crime of hooliganism was abolished and it was divided into the crimes of forced indecency, child molestation, gathering for promiscuity, gathering to fight, provoking trouble, etc. The outlet of desire When it comes to the crime of "gathering for lewdness", I think of the report in 2023 that 6 men in Hangzhou were arrested for gathering for lewdness. Many netizens expressed homophobia, while the case of 10 men and women gathering for lewdness in the same period was ignored by most media. Is it because the public is accustomed to the lewdness between men and women and therefore it has no news value? In 2009, there was a "swapping spouse" case involving 22 defendants (14 men and 8 women) that caused a huge public opinion storm. According to the prosecution's data, from the summer of 2007 to August 2009, 22 people participated in 35 gatherings through forums or QQ groups. Among them, the main culprit Ma organized or participated in 18 gatherings, and 14 were held at his home. Among them, there were only two couples, some for seeking excitement, some for improving the relationship between husband and wife, and several women had this sexual fetish. . Ma is an associate professor at a university in Nanjing, divorced and single. He believed that the activities did not constitute a gathering for lewdness and defended his innocence. The other 21 defendants all pleaded guilty, and the case was not heard in public. In the end, he was severely punished for his lack of clear awareness of the social harm and illegality of his behavior, and was sentenced to 3 years and 6 months in prison. Others had a good attitude of confessing their guilt. 18 defendants were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 1 year to 2 years and 6 months, of which 14 were given suspended sentences, and the remaining 3 defendants were exempted from criminal punishment because of their minor crimes and voluntary surrender. The number of people involved in this case set a record since the establishment of the crime of gathering for lewdness, and it was the first time that a person was sentenced to actual imprisonment for this crime. In 2006, a domestic drama "Don't Dance with Strangers"involved the issue of spouse swapping. In the past, the themes of domestic film and television dramas were more diverse than today. Li Yinhe once said that the crime of group lewdness is seriously outdated and suggested abolishing it. She said, "As far as I know, developed countries do not have the crime of group lewdness." "The earliest case of spouse swapping in China occurred in the 1980s. Four middle-aged couples, intellectuals, swapped spouses. The leader was shot, and then one was sentenced to life imprisonment and another to 15 years in prison."
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Treno dei Bambini
Director: Drama, History
Cast: Christian Cervone, Barbara Ronchi, Serena Rossi, Stefano Accorsi, Francesco di Leyva, More ...
User Rating: 7.6/10 (759 votes)
Among the films I watched recently, the two most tear-jerking ones, "My Favorite Cake" and "Child's Heart Train", are both directed by women. To be honest, I didn't pay attention to who the director was before watching them, but the impression is not deceptive. "Even if there are no descriptive, bloody, violent, or war scenes", it can still make people want to watch it deeply. It is almost the work of female directors. I am not dragging it down, but the female perspective is different. The language of love is outlined in the details, but it is never too sensational. It is restrained at the right time and the camera is restrained. It is probably a kind of female psychological language: because women understand love too much, when they really depict the scene of love, they leave many meaningful fragments and aftertastes, instead of directly cutting the picture in front of you, which is as boring as uncovering the answer. There are many great male directors, including those with scene arrangement and grand worldview, but when describing love, they seem to lack a kind of imagination. It is so interesting. When watching a movie, you are tasting the director's subconscious projection and emotional pattern, and who is behind the camera lens? This emotion cannot be hidden. Or let's put it this way, when male directors film maternal love, they always use the theme of "sacrifice", that is, the mother dies for her child, or the mother sacrifices the happiness of the rest of her life for her child, or the mother gives up something. The purpose is that a mother must be strong, and motherhood contains too much content about self-sacrifice and carries too many private implications. However, stories of maternal love shot by female directors are always more "gentle" to women. Letting a child go is love, accepting a child is love, sometimes coldly pushing a child away is love, but "not forgetting to live your own life" is also love. Female directors are good at shooting women who "live according to their own wishes but also love their children." So I understand that we really, really need more female directors. We need more female directors to shoot "women". For example, the role of "mother" has always been shot by male directors, with all kinds of private goods in patriarchal narratives, and is suffocated by the definitions of "sacrifice", "virginity" and "selflessness". If more female directors shoot women from the perspective of women, then the definition of the word "mother" will move towards new connotations in female narratives. More female directors are filming "what is motherhood" instead of male directors defining what motherhood is. Whoever holds the camera to express ideas is a kind of power in itself.
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Clown in a Cornfield
Director: Slasher Horror, Dark Comedy, Teen Horror, Horror
Cast: Katie Douglas, Aaron Abrams, Carson MacCormac
User Rating: 3.0/10 (100 votes)
Saw the opening voice-over: “I love men and the only thing better than one man is two men when they’re touching and kissing each other.”
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Balle perdue 3
Director: Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
Cast: Alban Lenoir, Steffi Selma, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Gérard Lanvin, Pascal Ebijo, Julie Tedesco
User Rating: 6.7/10 (315 votes)
The 15-minute prologue uses two action scenes, namely a motorcycle racing scene and an indoor action scene, to set the tone for the whole film. It doesn't pay much attention to the plot. If you like the style of the first two parts, you will definitely like the third part, which magnifies the advantages of the first two parts. But if you think the first two parts are not good, then you won't like the third part either. The action scenes are much better than the first two parts. The city car chase scene must be borrowed from Mission Impossible. In the end, everyone gets on the plane and sets off fireworks. There is another short segment at the end. In fact, I think the plot is still interesting. It's not as bad as I imagined.
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Le Rendez-vous de l'été
Director: Drama
Cast: Brandine Madec, India Haile, Arcadi Radef
User Rating: 3.0/10 (100 votes)
This year, the new artistic director of the Berlin International Film Festival, Tricia Tuttle, cancelled the previously acclaimed Encounters unit and replaced it with a new Perspectives unit. The new unit focuses on outstanding new filmmakers, especially those who have fluent and bold film language, compelling viewpoints, and new ways of looking at the world. French director and actor Valentin Kadic's debut feature film *Paris Summer* has become a highlight of this unit and the entire Berlin Film Festival this year. It has been repeatedly mentioned and favored in various film reviews of the Berlin Film Festival. In 2020, she co-founded Les Flimeuses, a production company dedicated to supporting female filmmakers. In the same year, she began her directing career. She collaborated again with Blondie Madyk, the star of her second short film *Summer Vacation*, and tailored this film between documentary and fiction for her, which is set against the backdrop of the Paris Olympics. The film was shot during the Paris Olympics, with the camera set up in the crowd, but it focused more on the private story of this queer woman. It is also a gentle interrogation of the issues behind the Paris Olympics, deftly piercing the theme park-like fantasy image of enthusiasm, diversity and inclusion that the Paris Olympics strives to present to the world. Most of the time, our protagonist Blondie cannot really fit in the carnival atmosphere of Paris. The film does not deliberately create any conflicts. We gradually deepen our understanding of Blondie as the film progresses, and learn the purpose of her trip: to watch the swimming competition of her favorite female athlete Beryl Gastaldello and to visit her half-sister Julie whom she has not seen for ten years. We also have a deeper understanding of her failed relationship and her choice not to have children. At the same time, we also experience Hong Sang-soo's embarrassing moments with her. Blondie is pure and introverted, and has a unique sense of pause, which allows her to stumble in various embarrassing situations. In such an Olympic moment with the most national significance, we can't see any unconscious attachment to nationalism in her. There is no such kitsch in the whole film, which is the freshness and cleverness of this film. She is more like a mirror, reflecting the doubts of the people behind the glamour of Paris who have never been exposed about the high cost of the city image project of managing the Seine River, and the questioning of the legitimacy of the act of expelling homeless people from the streets of Paris. Blondie continued to accumulate disappointment about this trip, and gradually got lost, until the day before she left Paris, she left sadly under the hysteria of her sister for no reason, and her Paris moment really came. She sat on the back seat of the motorcycle of her new friend, electrician Benjamin, and shuttled through Paris at night, bringing a gust of summer night breeze. The two fell asleep by the river, and when they woke up on the grass, Paris was shrouded in mist before dawn. A miracle happened at this moment. Beryl Gastaldello appeared on a bridge not far away with two dogs. It was a chance morning by the river, not in the Olympic stadium.
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The Life List
Director: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Cast: Sofia Carlson, Kyle Allen, Sebastian de Sousa, Connie Britton, Jose Zuniga, More...
User Rating: 6.7/10 (1601 votes)
At the beginning of the movie, I was attracted by the unique frosted voice of the heroine. I really love her voice, lazy and with a wise tone, very mellow. The group of pregnant women at the beginning of the movie formed a sharp contrast with the heroine. This feeling is very strange. I can't explain it. It vaguely reflects that her boyfriend who loves games is not her true love. The second love came very suddenly. Both of them fell in love at first sight. They lived passionately every day. She thought he was her true love... But they broke up! Not surprisingly, he gave me the impression of a sophisticated man. He was keen on making friends with people who had common topics and the same dimensions. He couldn't accept the low-level jokes of the heroine's friends (actually, I didn't like that joke either). As expected, she and the lawyer ended up together. It was not surprising, not at all. After all, choosing a tie is something that only close couples would do. The movie hinted at the beginning that they would be together. In addition, the heroine always thought that her adoptive father didn't love her. But I don't think so. Just like her biological father said, the first thing the adoptive father did after driving home was to pick up the young girl and spin her around, but she didn't remember it. At the end of the movie, the adoptive father also described this behavior again. Regarding the relationship between the heroine and her mother, to be honest, it is really warm and heartwarming.
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Pigen med nålen
Director: Drama, Thriller
Cast: Victoria Carmen Sonne, Trina Tihon, Bethel Zessili, Ava Knox Martin, Joachim Fjelstrup, Tessa Hoder, Søren Hitter-Larssen, Thomas Kirk
User Rating: 7.4/10 (4942 votes)
Originally named "Dogmar the Killer", Danish serial killer Dogmar Overby killed 9 to 25 illegitimate babies entrusted to her care around 1918 under the guise of a childcare worker. In the film, she was adapted into a candy store owner who helped those who could not raise their own children during the Great Depression of World War I to kill their babies. The director was not interested in retelling a biopic about a serial killer. The film shifted the narrative perspective to a victim (participant) mother in the Dogmar case, a weaver girl, the owner of the needle in the title, but that was not her production tool. The film transforms from a simple biographical film into a dark fairy tale about forgotten and abandoned people, depicting the Gothic appearance of Copenhagen at the end of World War I: widespread unemployment and scarcity, scarce job opportunities, people disfigured by the war who can only play monsters in the circus, abortion is regarded as a sin, pregnant women are expelled from factories, and many illegitimate children with no future try to find a ray of hope in the iron-clad ethical society. The film uses the method of horror films to outline the plight of women who have no future, no backup, and no escape options. Because of this, Dogma, who has been tempered by life and is also broken, but still has humanity, is a fatal attraction to Zhinu. For her, it is easier to dance with the devil than to love her husband torn apart by war or a weak young master across classes. An expressionist nightmare that reveals the devastating truth hidden behind the veil of civilization.
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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
Director: Drama, Action, Animation, Fantasy, Adventure
Cast: Brian Cox, Gaia Wise, Miranda Otto, Luke Pasqualino, Lorraine Ashbourne, More...
User Rating: 6.1/10 (9014 votes)
After watching it, I felt like I had drunk a bowl of broth that Éowyn handed to Aragorn. The ingredients were the same, but the taste was really not the same. It is an unforgivable mistake to make the protagonist of Helm's daughter, who has no role in the original book and whose name is unknown (in fact, she is an original character). This is not a female power moment - it is equally bad to set this character as a princess who yearns for freedom, an unwelcome bastard, or a hobbit from the Shire, because it should not exist in the first place. The consequence of this is that the sense of fate and heroism in Tolkien's works were directly destroyed, because the tragedy of the severance of the first line of Rohan became "just the death of the protagonist's relatives and friends", and the distant epic myth became a second-rate adventure animation. So we can see that Hareth, who led the guards to defend Edoras until the last man fell, was a reckless man who was shot through the throat after showing off his strength after successfully fighting the mammoth in the movie. Another son, Hama, died by being captured alive and executed in public. The giant eagle that the Lord of the Rings was unwilling to give away can be fed by humans and help transport the nostalgic equipment... These are nothing. The most ooc character is Helm the Hammerhand himself, who was deprived of the protagonist's position. The Rohan are martial but not stupid. Helm is praised first because he is a leader: a resolute leader who can withstand great grief and lead his people to survive in the desperate situation of a long winter, go out alone to kill the enemy until the opponent is terrified, and finally die standing on the eve of victory. So after the war, the Rohan people spontaneously called the Hornburg Helm's Deep. If it was the demented wild man in the movie who surrendered in public on the city wall, was devastated after the death of his son, and finally gave himself up at the beginning of the siege because he couldn't open a door (literally), I'm afraid the first people to overthrow Helm would be the residents of Helm's Deep. In Tolkien's writing, the reason for the defeat in the Battle of the Fords of Isen was that Rohan and Gondor were invaded at the same time as planned, not because Helm was so stubborn and arrogant that he refused to ask Gondor for help as in the movie. The setting of Hera and the short and shy attendant (I really can't remember the character's name) seems to be a replica of the princess and Merry in "The Return of the King", but the strength of the weak should be reflected in wisdom, courage and skills, rather than luck and logic. The soundtrack, storyboards and Eowyn's narration earned me one star, but that's it. The ending song is very nice, but I'm very angry.
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Black Bag
Director: Drama, Romance, Suspense, Thriller
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Cate Blanchett, Marissa Abela, Tom Burke, Naomie Harris, More...
User Rating: 6.0/10 (6359 votes)
It feels like authentic British humor, and it was made by an American director and screenwriter. It's quite surprising to think that the editor of Jurassic Park and the director of Ocean's Eleven were both very similar. Let me tell you some interesting details, including spoilers: - At the beginning, when the male protagonist went to find the informant, the informant was hugged by many women and said that he just cheated accidentally. The male protagonist persuaded him to go home, and the informant actually went back. In the next scene where the informant was about to die, the informant was at home discussing going out with his wife on the weekend to ease the relationship - When the male lead pretended to lose his work badge and went to find the female lead, the female lead's boss was shown in the meeting room for the first time. The old Bond showed his sovereignty by switching the glass. - When the male protagonist said goodbye to the female protagonist on the night of the trip abroad, he first spoke French and then German, because both languages are used in Switzerland. The female protagonist frowned slightly after hearing this, which also showed that she seemed to realize that the male protagonist was checking her out. - In the meeting after the vulnerability incident, Uncle Fa delicately showed the panic beneath his calm surface. If you look closely, his hands were shaking when pouring water, and his reaction after leaving the meeting room was also panic. - The first time the male protagonist went to the river to sort out the situation, he didn't catch anything, and he had no clue. The second time he went with the black agent, he caught a small fish, which corresponds to the black guy. The big boss was not caught, but he was eating a still-living fish, implying that he was the big fish and could survive the best. - The body language of the big devil leaning forward to press the elevator button with old Bond in the elevator is so powerful, it instantly expresses the meaning of dominance
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The Godfather
Director: Gangster, Epic, Tragedy, Crime, Drama
Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan
User Rating: 5.0/10 (2000 votes)
I love this movie and all of the GF movies. I see something new every time I have seen it (countless, truly). The story of tragedy and (little) comedy that exists in this film is easily understood by people all over the world. This film has been called an American story however I have met others who have seen this movie in other languages and they seem to have the same love and appreciation for it that I do. I love the characters and all of the different personalities that they represent not just in families but in society itself. It seems like the entire cast is part of every other movie that I love as well. The sounds, music, color and light in the film are just as much a part of the film as the people. This could be attributed to the method in which it was filmed. At many parts of the film I can still find myself feeling the emotions conveyed in the film. I never tire of appreciating this film. I thank God that FFC is an American treasure. We are fortunate to have him.
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